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Left, recipients of the 2017 Urban Hero Awards gather for one final hurrah following the ceremony at York Mills Gallery last Thursday Sixteen people/organizations were honored for their good deeds and impact made in their communities across Toronto. The categories included: Arts, Business, Environment, Education, Social Issues, Good Neighbour and Sports. Right, Sharon Nyarko was honoured in the category. She managed to take a picture with her award at the beginning of the evening, before having to sneak out to write a university exam. lisher of Metroland Media Toronto, noting each winner made a difference to the people in their neighbourhoods. Dikema Etto doesn’t place much value on being an Urban Hero. "Helping others, to me, gives me much joy," said the Good Neighbour category winner. "It’s better to give than to receive." For the past eight years, the Scarborough resident has picked up and distributed food and care items twice a month to homeless people downtown through StreetFeed. "They genuinely appreciate you coming out," Etto said. "There’s something special about it. It’s not being a hero. The whole phrase is meaningless. It’s about how can I improve your life and

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make a positive change. It’s about helping others feel awesome. You never know what impact you leave on others." He also created A Fresh Start, a drive to distribute personal care items to Syrian refugees in Canada. Used car dealership owner Nasser Rad and his staff were looking for ways to help people in need when his wife came up with an idea: why not give away cars to people who could otherwise not afford one? Since the Care to Share program’s launch in 2015, North York based Autorama has given away 10 free cars. Rad, who won the People’s Choice for Business, isn’t a stranger to hard times. He arrived in Cana-

da as a refugee from Iran 27 years ago with no money and only a drive to succeed in his pockets. "You have to help people who are not fortunate in life," he said. And if entrepreneurs are struggling to come up with ideas for their business, Rad offers a simple solution: "Ask your wife." José Alberto Flores credits his mother for his resilience. When he moved to Toronto from El Salvador 24 years ago, he spoke little English but was fortunate to have a strong support network of teachers who wanted him to succeed. Now, the People’s Choice winner in Education and vice-principal of Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School and Re-

gional Arts Centre in Bloor West Village is paying it forward by focusing on student success. "Life is not easy, there will be obstacles along the way," he said. "You have to keep moving forward." In previous years, the Urban Hero Awards were held in Etobicoke, Scarborough, and North York. This year, in conjunction with Canada 150 celebrations, the program was open to everyone in the city. Sponsors of this year’s event were Canadian Tire, HealthyPlanet, Newad, Humber College Lakeshore Campus, Rajasri CPA, and Dr. Amanpreet Chopra. For information or to submit a nomination for next year, visit www.urbanheroes.ca

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his life around and salvage a relationship with the woman who nearly died of stress as a result of his addiction. "I went from a drinker who partied and who had done cocaine to crossing over to someone who used it all the time," he recalled at the Southern Ontario Cocaine Anonymous (SOCA) conference on Saturday, Oct. 20. "It started out as something I did for fun, but then I wound up needing it to function. I had to do it to get out of bed, to do anything." At his worst, Terance was snorting hundreds of dollars of cocaine a day, and he endured psychosis brought on from the drugs and a lack of sleep. For a while, his wife remained supportive, due in part to him concocting a web of lies to keep his addiction hidden. "Eventually, she started to get really sick of my act," he said. "She said ’you’re not the guy I married - you’re sleeping all the time, your finances are a mess, you’re restless and irritable.’" One day, while pulled over at a rest stop, Terance returned to his car to find his wife slumped over the steering wheel with no vital signs. Doctors struggled to revive her and, while they were successful, they diagnosed her with takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a stress-related heart condition known as "broken heart syndrome." "The stress built up and she almost died because of me," Terance said. "That could have been bottom for me. I started going to meetings once a week, I’d cry and think that was recovery,

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Local pumpkin parades Nov. 1 Over 40 parks in Toronto will glow orange on Nov. 1, including some in midtown. Jack-o-lanterns will light up several parks during its annual pumpkin parades. According to the city’s website, it has been a tradition since the first pumpkin parade was organized in Sorauren Park in

but I would call my dealer on my way out (of the meetings)." He and his wife split up and he wound up living alone, at which point his addiction caused him to blow through his life savings in about three months.

"Finally, I reached that point where you feel like you can’t live with the drug and you can’t live without it," he said. At his sister’s urging, Terance joined SOCA and continues on his road to recovery. He credits the organization and the

support he has received from other members for saving his life, and is committed to fighting his addiction with everything he has. "It’s about maintenance now," he said. "It’s like going to the gym. You can’t go to the

gym, get fit and then stop and stay fit for the rest of your life." Cocaine Anonymous holds regular meetings throughout the city for addicts and their loved ones. For more information, visit www.ca-on.org.

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Pumpkin parades are organized by community organizations, business improvement areas and councillors with a permit from Parks, Forestry and Recreation. The city’s solid waste management division will provide disposal bins to make cleanup of the neighbourhood’s pumpkins after the event.

Toronto has been ranked the fifth-most expensive city in Ontario when it comes to car insurance, but residents in parts of midtown and downtown appear to be getting a break. According to Kanetix.ca, residents in some neighbourhoods pay upwards of $2,300 per year for insurance - nearly $950 more per year than residents in some downtown Toronto neighbourhoods. Overall, Torontonians pay an average of $1,743 in premiums, behind only Brampton ($2,268), Vaughan ($1,825), Mississauga ($1,788), and Markham ($1,785). All five rank well above the provincial average of $1,316. Residents in the Agincourt North (M1S postal codes), Milliken (M1V) and L’Amoreaux (M1W) pay an average of $2,384 according to Kanetix, with the Malvern (M1B) and Rouge (M1X) neighbourhoods trailing only slightly at $2,313. In the Casa Loma, Annex, University, Kensington-Chinatown, Trinity-Bellwoods and other downtown neighbourhoods, premiums are $1,491. In neighbourhoods such as Rosedale-Moore Park, the Church-Yonge Corridor, the Bay Street Corridor and Leaside-Bennington, they are $1,437. Full story at insidetoronto.com.

The city’s annual pumpkin parades got their start at Parkdale’s Sorauren Park, pictured here in a photo from last Nov. 1. More than 40 city parks will host parades this year. Metroland file photo

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With roughly one in three Toronto kids living in poverty and 40 per cent coming to school hungry every day, it’s nearly impossible for far too many youngsters to be at their best throughout the school day. Hunger affects grades, behaviour and graduation rates, and with Toronto holding the dubious title of Canada’s child poverty capital two years running according to a study released last year by a group of social service agencies, the issue seems unlikely to abate. Programs such as the Toronto Foundation for Student Success (TFSS) provide meals through student nutrition programs to help all students start their school day on equal footing. Abigail Taylor, a Grade 8 student at D A Morrison Middle School, said the program helps ensure she and her classmates start their day fed - something that might not be the case for far too many otherwise. "Some people don’t eat breakfast, and (the nutrition program) has things like pancakes and oat-

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Students at Rose Avenue Junior Public School enjoy a healthy meal through a student nutrition program. meal," she said. "It fills my stomach so I won’t have to wait for lunch. That helps me focus in class." Student nutrition programs aren’t simply for kids whose families’ budgets are stretched; some parents are pressed for time or work difficult hours. Roughly 200,000 Toronto students partake in more than 800 student nutrition

programs city-wide. Sandra Best of the TFSS says such programs should be present in all schools, and that all students should be encouraged to join. "It will help get rid of the stigma," she said. "And in such a diverse city, when you’re playing in the playground with someone you sat next to at breakfast that morn-

ing, you’ve already broken bread with them and you’re going to see new friendships." Catherine Parsonage, executive director and CEO of the TFSS, noted that when kids start their days off with a healthy and nutritious breakfast every day, it leads to a nine to 12 per cent increase in literacy, a 10 per cent increase in math

scores, and an 18 per cent increase in science marks. "And then when you get to high school, when children are fed every day, suspensions are cut in half and graduation rates go up 17 per cent," she said. A healthy breakfast provided through an in-school program only costs about $1.66 per student, with the City of Toronto and the province combining to provide only about 26 cents per student. Corporate and private donors contribute greatly, but there is still a need for more funding. Parsonage added that, of the 40 per cent of students who go to school hungry, 20 per cent don’t have lunch, either. Dinner often consists of processed or fast food due to the fact that it tends to be cheap and convenient. According to Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty Capital, a 2016 report by a coalition of social service agencies, 29 per cent of food bank users are children, and food bank use increased by 13 per cent from just 799,320 visits in 2008 to 905,970 visits in 2016. To learn more about student nutrition programs, visit www.tfss.ca

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Ontario colleges at a crossroads The strike that hit Ontario’s 24 community colleges and cancelled classes for 230,000 full-time students is not your run-of-the-mill labour dispute. Yes, there are two widely diverging and entrenched sides. But this particular labour dispute is extraordinary for one big reason. The 12,000 striking college professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians have an ambitious, far-reaching goal that goes far beyond wages and benefits. They want nothing less than to change the business model for the province’s community college system so there are more full-time professors with more power. Represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union, they’re calling for a drastic reduction in the percentage of part-time instructors at the colleges and an increase in the number of full-time teaching positions. In recent years, colleges have increasingly turned to cheaper, part-time instructors to save money. The union says part-timers now make up 70 per cent of all college teachers and want that number reduced to no more than 50 per cent. The college’s bargainers - the College Employer Council - see things differently and makes its calculations based on the number of teaching hours, not the number of teachers. By their measure, half the teaching is already done by full-time professors. Only 30 per cent is done by contract instructors while part-time employees, who are also union members, account for a fifth of the teaching. Whatever numbers you pick, the fact remains the union wants more full-time professors. And meeting its demands would carry a hefty price tag - $250 million more a year, according to the Employer Council. Now the question for Ontario is not simply whether the strikers deserve what they want. It’s whether those demands will deliver a better education for college students and justify spending an additional $250 million more a year on them. If the answer to those last two questions is "yes," someone has to figure out where to find the money. No one can expect tuition fee hikes to cover all or even most of that higher cost. Clearly, the provincial government read taxpayers - would have to contribute more. The province is far more generous in funding universities than colleges. Yet the distinction between the two has blurred. Colleges now grant degrees and their professors conduct research. Meanwhile, in this era of new, disruptive technologies, when the very nature of Canada’s economy is in flux and the challenges facing young people trying to enter the workforce are huge, community colleges have a greater role in the education system. College management can’t fix everything on its own. Whatever happens in the current strike, the Ontario government needs to rethink the province’s colleges system and how it is supported.

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Final year of council’s term to be quiet... by design At this time next year, Torontonians will have selected a new mayor, and a new city council. A year is, or ought to be, a long time, a long enough time for a lot to happen. But if I may make a prediction, by this time next year there is a good chance that not very much will happen at all, at least at Toronto City Hall. There’s sure not much on the horizon. In a term where council committed - and recommitted - billions of dollars to a one-stop subway line to Scarborough and the reconstruction of an elevated highway at the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway, dipped toe in the Rail Deck Park, another billion-dollar-plus project, and bravely tried -

DAVID NICKLE The City and failed - to implement road tolls to start paying for it all, the last year looks quiet. Perhaps, indeed likely, this is by design. Mayor John Tory has made it clear that he’s aiming for a second term, and his 2014 second-place opponent Doug Ford has made public that he’s aiming to win that election for himself. For Tory, now is no time

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etroland Media Toronto hosts the Urban Hero Awards to celebrate community heroes of all ages for their inspiring work, leadership and good deeds here in the city. The program was launched as part of Canada’s 150th celebrations as a way to honour the people that make a difference in the lives of others and exemplify what it means to be Canadian. Nominations were accepted in eight categories: Arts, Business, Education, Environment, Good Neighbour, Health, Social Issues and Sports. The awards were open to individuals who reside or work in

the City of Toronto. Nominees must be at least 14 years of age during the active program year. The work or act for which a nomination is being made must have taken place in the last five years. Posthumous nominations can be made for good work done in the past 10 years. For the first time, the awards program included a ‘People’s Choice’ voting round, whereby the public could vote for their favourite nominee once a day between July 7 and Aug. 13. The eight nominees with the most votes across the categories were declared People’s Choice winners. Another eight winners were

selected by Metroland Media Toronto staff, and assessed based on the following criteria: Impact – How their contributions have made a lasting difference to a person, a group or an issue in the community. Inspiration – How the person serves as a role model or inspiration to others. Challenges – What obstacles (social, personal or other) the nominee has overcome to make an impact in their community. The final 16 award winners were officially announced at a gala event Oct. 19 in Toronto. For more information or to submit a nomination for next year, visit www.urbanheroes.ca

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t’s my pleasure to help announce the winners of our 2017 Urban Hero Awards in Toronto and share their inspirational stories with our readers. It’s been exciting to see this concept grow. We at Metroland Media Toronto created the awards program in 2009, first in Etobicoke, and then expanded it in subsequent years to North York and Scarborough. This year, in conjunction with Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations we decided to “go big or go home.” We merged our local awards programs into one, opening nominations to everyone in the city. It was our most successful awards program to-date, with 65 very deserving nominations submitted by our readers, partners and contacts. For the first time, we hosted a ‘People’s Choice’

vote online that saw an incredible 16,000 unique votes cast for our nominees. That an awards program like this can garner this kind of support, speaks to the value of recognizing our everyday heroes. It was our intention to put the spotlight on our neighbours, our teachers, coaches, business leaders and volunteers – to seek out the people who make a real difference in our communities. Those people serve as inspiration to the rest of us, and we feel it’s our job as a community news organization to bring those stories to light. I offer my congratulations to our winners, and my thanks to the nominators for identifying this great group of citizens. Well done! – Dana Robbins, Publisher, Metroland Media Toronto

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Toronto Argonauts’ offensive lineman Jamal Campbell has won an Urban Hero Award in the People’s Choice sports category. The Jane and Finch native still lives in the area and continues to give back to his neighbourhood despite his new found fame.

Jennifer Smith helps girls, women enjoy playing hockey

ennifer Smith loves everything about hockey. Growing up, she would watch the sport on television and play lots of it on the rink and on the street. But she never played organized hockey until she attended the University of Toronto and joined a women’s intramural league. "I played for four years and really didn’t think I’d play hockey after that," she said, until she found out about a women’s recreational league starting up in 1992. "I’ve played ever since," she added. Now 49, Smith is the president of the Toronto Leaside

Girls Hockey Association, which operates out of the city’s east end. She became involved with the organization back in 2003 as an assistant coach of her daughter’s hockey team. "I don’t think I would have ever imagined in 2003 that 14 years later I would have had this incredible opportunity to help with our board, with our hundreds of volunteers, to shape and grow this organization in the way that we have," she said. Founded in 1974, it was established to create opportunities for girls and women, regardless of their skill lev-

el. Currently, the association operates a wide-range of programs with over 1,600 members. "Creating a solid, positive

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Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association president Jennifer Smith settles in for another night at Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, as the Toronto Leaside Junior Wildcats practise behind her. Smith has been selected as an Urban Hero in the sports category in recognition of her dedication to girls’ hockey.

environment for these athletes is important," Smith said. Her commitment and passion for helping women in hockey is what earned

her a nomination for an Urban Hero award from her colleague June Smyth. "She just wants every girl who’s interested in playing to be able to play at the best

level for them and to love the game," Smyth said. "I’ve always admired Jennifer and looked up to her because not only is she dealing with a difficult position, but she manages it with grace and understanding and really tries to help people." Smith said she’s happy being recognized for her work, but she said she can’t do it alone. "There’s 13 of us on this board, and there are hundreds of volunteers in this organization . I’m just one person; it takes many volunteers to put 1,600 players on the ice every week," she said. "This is lovely, but really, it’s a team award."

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